Barrel warfare is the oldest form of water warfare, both in China and abroad.

Generals who have a little knowledge of water battles are not unfamiliar with this kind of tactic of jumping to help kill enemy ships.

However, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the water war in the East has not deliberately pursued the shore war. The pursuit of the performance of warships by all parties in the war has been relying on the indicator of "high and steep ship tower".

The higher the boat tower, the better, the higher the higher the better the arrows are. The side waiting for the lower side of the boat and the boat tower to suffer the loss is so bad that it cannot raise its head. It takes the initiative to lean up and arch up like a siege. The guarding boat is harvesting more heads in vain. Isn’t it beautiful?

In addition, the ancient Eastern inland warships were mainly square flat heads to ensure stable navigation and difficult to install corners. Naturally, no one developed "patterns" and "crow beaks" and other equipment that deliberately stalked the enemy ships to fight on the sidelines. Everyone thought about "I jumped up and chopped when I met a ship higher than me. When I met a ship lower than me, there was no need to chop and chop, wait for the enemy to come and chop."

The tactic of using a huge hull and a heavy hammer to directly sank and smash the enemy ship. In history, it was not until the early years of the Sui Dynasty that Yang Su, a general guarding Shu, built a "five-tooth warship" in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in order to destroy Nanchen. However, such a ship had to pass through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River first and entered the Yiling area before it could be built, because the center of gravity was too high and could not be opened at all, and it would easily overturn when it encountered a turbulent place.

When Li Su ordered the establishment of a shipyard to build a shipyard in Jiameng last winter, he paid attention to "teaching according to his aptitude" and built some warships suitable for their style for the water warships of different characteristics. He imitated the Roman crow warship and made a small pole and crow beak, but there was not much technical content. It was completely a layer of window paper, which was easily made by craftsmen after breaking the concept.

Most of the Han army warships still do not have such special equipment, and only a small amount is used in today's special battlefield environment. Cooperating with Gan Ning, it is a wings.

The industry is in this situation, and Gao Pei is not a powerful general in the water battle. He was entangled by Gan Ning, a crazy man who "specially stares at the battle on the sidelines. No matter who is tall and low on the enemy, he will be stuck in the beak and cut it clean before he can talk about it." He was naturally confused in an instant.

Who made Gan Ning a pirate? The purpose of pirates is to grab things. If you grab things, you have to jump up and kill all the people and occupy the ship. Since ancient times, naval artillery has been used to attack pirates from the sidelines. This is a natural principle.

Gan Ning himself also cut down one ship after another. From the second ship, the shackle in his hand began to show his courage. He could wrap around the sail cable or throw out the hook, and continue to jump to the next ship like a mountain of apes to continue fighting. Gan Ning himself was only wearing rhinoceros armor, without iron armor, to improve the degree of lightness and agility, and his defense was relatively less important.

"The commander, I can't stand it anymore. Those pirates are so brave. The brothers who have already had more than a dozen boats were cut and abandoned and surrendered. The enemy general wearing the big red Shu brocade has already cut down five or six of our boats! Why don't you retreat quickly! We will go against the current and they will go down the current, and we can't even distance if we continue like this!"

A Qu Junhou beside Gao Pei was captured and his boat was taken. He jumped into the river and fled to Gao Pei's boat. He pointed at Gan Ning, who was as powerful as a mad tiger, and trembled to remind him.

"What are you afraid of? The enemy looks like there are only more than a thousand people. Our army is more than four or five times more than them. So what if you go against the current, you will slowly lean forward to surround them!" Gao Pei was unwilling to be defeated by the wild road, and was still insisting on gathering the formation.

He felt that Gan Ning's advantage was only because of the mobility upstream, although there were few soldiers, it was very effective to concentrate and use it in an instant, and could form temporary concentrated superior forces on local battlefields.

But as long as the army downstream is given some time and slowly surrounding it, Gan Ning can be crushed sooner or later.

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"Hmph, this thief general really doesn't know how to die. He actually feels that he still has hope. If he abandons these warships that we are entangled and turns around and runs, he can still keep a distance. It's too late now!"

Gan Ning used iron halberds to kill several people and cleared a Liu Yan army warship. After seeing Gao Pei not retreating, he knew that Gao Pei was gone.

Gan Ning's mission along the way is to mix with the enemy's front team as soon as possible, so that the enemy cannot set up a good formation and shoot at long range, and use its superiority to gather fire. After a while, Zhou Tai will appear with his main force.

Now, because Gao Pei was entangled in the front army, he did not immediately turn around and use his advantage to escape, selling his teammates to survive by cutting off their arms. He was also afraid that he would accidentally injure his teammates in the hand-to-hand combat and did not dare to shoot from afar, but instead piled up to melee, which is what Gan Ning likes to see the most.

Several times in a row, the enemy ships surrounded Gan Ning. Because the speed of sailing against the current was too slow, before they could get closer, the people on the previous boat had been killed by Gan Ning, and they were beaten into a tactic of adding fuel to their own way.

Gan Ning continued to hold on for a cup of tea until Zhou Tai led the main force of the rear army to come. The enemy army on the opposite side finally found that the situation was wrong and his morale was completely shaken.

Unfortunately, it was too late to retreat at this time. The warships on both sides were crowded with each other, the waterway was seriously blocked, and many were still entangled with corners and poles.

When Gao Pei commanded the left and right guards to surround Gan Ning, he thought he could beat two or three of them in seven or eight boats, forming an absolute advantage. In the end, he found that the ships surrounding Gan Ning's rear road were quickly killed and scattered by Zhou Tai, who rushed upstream, and the front was entangled and unable to escape.

More than a dozen large ships collided in a row, forming a bloody slaughterhouse. The battlefield was so wide that it was no different from land battles.

Gan Ning jumped over the side of several warships in succession and finally led the elite thiefs to Gao Pei's ship.

Gao Pei's personal guards are all equipped with ring-headed swords and round shields. No one uses long spears and standard water battle equipment. Gao Pei himself has a fish scale black armor and a cast iron helmet. The most elite dozen personal soldiers and schools are also full of armor.

Therefore, when he saw Gan Ning killing a group of thieves with only leather armor or even no armor, Gao Pei felt a little lucky: he didn’t even have iron armor, and fighting in a formation may not be without a chance to escape!

The Gan Ning army rushed forward and quickly dispersed the Gao Pei army's array. The sword and shield soldiers were unable to reach far away, so the formation was not difficult to break through. After three or four water thieves died on Gan Ning, they soon formed a scattered battle and fighting each other.

Gan Ning's iron halberd was slashing fiercely, flying up and down. Gao Pei blocked the sword with a ring head several times, retreating repeatedly, and occasionally a shield strike back, which could force Gan Ning, who was much better at martial arts than him.

The sharp blade of the iron halberd and the side branches were chopped on the shield and were slid away. After several moves, Gan Ning found out Gao Pei's martial arts strategy. He no longer relied on the iron halberd to attack, but pretended that the attack ended, took two steps to sell a flaw, and let Gao Pei fight back.

Gao Pei thought Gan Ning had lost his skills, so he turned over and killed him. The sword technique of the ring head was rigorous, covering his upper body with a round shield, and greeted the enemy's lower lane like a wind blowing. This is also a common move for the shield side.

Gan Ning was not easy to block it, and it seemed that he was almost in danger, but he looked at the opportunity and pierced the middle deck with a halberd. The risk of being unable to be pulled back for a while. When he saw Gao Pei slashing against the ground with another knife, he suddenly stabbed it down. The side branch of the iron halberd just stood on the sword, and the remaining strength had not yet subsided and the ring-headed knife was stuck on the deck, and the two of them were stuck on the wooden board at the same time.

Gao Pei thought to himself that it was not good, and hesitated whether to pull it back with all his might, or to decisively abandon the knife and jump, or the brutal collision of a shield knocked Gan Ning away, making Gan Ning the party who lost his weapon.

With the lightning of his mind, Gao Pei didn't have time to think too much. He was driven by his fierceness and chose the most defeated brutal collision.

If you refuse to abandon the halberd, you will be hit by this brutal collision with people with iron armor and heavy shields weighing two or three hundred pounds!

"Drink!" Gao Pei shouted loudly while urging wildly, and glanced at Gan Ning's sideways and slammed the shackles of the other hand.

Gao Pei quickly lowered his head, raised the shield higher and protected his face. With a "bang", the pole of the chain shackled the shield, and the meteor hammer head connected to the chain turned around along the upper edge of the shield and was continued to be thrown out by inertia, hitting Gao Pei's back of the head with a "poof".

Gao Pei wore a cast iron helmet, but the helmet was not deformed much, and his head was not broken. He continued to bump into the body according to his inertia before his death, knocking Gan Ning out a few steps away and overwhelmed Gan Ning.

Gan Ning knew that this move was a bit risky, but if he didn't, he wouldn't be able to kill the enemy general so quickly.

He rubbed his internal organs that were surging with blood and blood, forcibly holding back the vomiting in his heart, and pushed Gao Pei's body away.

Since half a year ago, in the battle with Zhang Fei, when he misjudged his opponent, he used a chain shackle to block the enemy's weapons, his chain shackle was shaken away by his hands. Gan Ning had a psychological shadow on his chain shackle technique during his jail.

There is actually no skill in this kind of trick. It depends entirely on who is strong on both sides. Now, I finally regained my confidence in Gao Pei.

The head general of Liu Yan's army was shot by a meteor hammer, and the subsequent fight became even more one-sided. Gan Ning finally officially achieved his eight flying achievements, with a total of more than a hundred people being killed.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Liu Yan's army, which was more than twice as many as the Han army, was completely killed and scattered. Dozens of grain transport ships were captured, and one or two thousand sailors surrendered. The rest quickly turned around and fled.

But Gan Ning and Zhou Tai were still unwilling to let go and divided their troops to chase and kill them. Among the deserters of Liu Yan's army, the only warships fled back to Jiangzhou because of their speed similar to those of the pursuers. However, the grain and cargo ships were heavily drafted and slow in speed, and were caught up and captured.

The Han army won a great victory in this battle, but basically it ended here. Before, Liu Xi underestimated the enemy and was defeated by Guan Yu by land support. This time, he did not dare to change the water route by land, so he took advantage of Guan Yu's absence, but was defeated by Zhou Taiganning again.

From then on, the Jiangzhou garrison should not dare to support Diaoyu City by water and land, and there was no chance to siege the city and attack the aid.

From this perspective, if you just kill the enemy and seize it, Zhou Taiganning won't make much money, after all, he used up a valuable strategic opportunity that cannot be replicated.

...

In the afternoon of that day, Li Su rode a horse with Dian Wei and other bodyguards to the temporary camp on the west bank of the Jialing River twenty miles south of Diaoyu City to check the results of Zhou Tai and Gan Ning. The reason for setting up a temporary camp here was because of the existence of Diaoyu City, which blocked the navy's waterway when it passed under the city and returned to the upper reaches, and might throw stones and sink passing ships, so he simply refused to go back.

Zhou Tai was full of excitement. When this group of fresh prisoners reported directly to Li Su: "Zhonglang, a total of more than 2,000 prisoners of war were captured, hundreds of ships and 30,000 shi of military rations were seized! Now, all the food transported to Liu Mao belongs to us, and our army can transport a lot of less food."

Li Su glanced at the prisoner beside him and waved his hand very generously: "Kill the enemy and capture them, these are all worth being happy. What's the only 30,000 shi of military food transportation capacity? Are we short of that little grain? Are we short of ships for transporting grain?

Continue to transport! After the seizure, all the soldiers will be rewarded with extra meals and will be given to the families of the soldiers who died in battle as pensions. Does the general of the Western Expedition still need the soldiers to be seized by the soldiers? All of them will be sent away!"

Otherwise, if those prisoners saw it, they would think we couldn't afford it!

Li Su wanted this effect: to let the enemy fully realize that Liu Bei's army was not short of food, and to destroy the other party's psychological expectation that "I must have consumed more than Liu Bei"!

Zhou Tai was slightly confused. For some reason, he seized the enemy's military rations and could not make the superior happy, but he didn't care, just follow the execution.

Li Su continued to ask: "Are there any enemy generals captured? Before going to war, I told you to capture as many civil and military generals as possible."

Gan Ning came to report: "I wanted to knock Gao Peisheng out of the way. The meteor hammer was not easy to grasp, so I killed him with a hammer on the back of my head. However, Zhao Wei, the civil servant who supervised the grain, was caught, and he claimed to be the prefect of Ba County."

As he said that, Gan Ning pointed to a civil servant in his thirties and forties among the captives, and pulled it out and threw it in front of Li Su. He was still regretting that Gao Pei had too little blood.

Li Su couldn't help but smile: "Who is the fake prefect? ​​Liu Yan is the self-proclaimed one. My mentor, Mr. Cai, is the prefect of Ba County! Forget it, I guess this person is useless. It's just that Liu Yan's method of winning people's hearts because of his profound experience.

If he had the final say, he would not be sent to supervise the food himself. First loosen his ties, entertain him, and put it back in Diaoyu City. Of course, the weapons and armor cannot be taken away, so just go back naked."

Zhao Wei was shocked: "You finally caught us, but you actually let us go back to Diaoyu City?"

Li Su despised and despised: "As you wastes, I'm not afraid of any more battles in the field. When you let them go back, of course, it's not going to go somewhere else, but you must go to the Diaoyu City - I'm still waiting for your thousands of waste mouths to speed up the consumption of Liu Mao to get poor, and you're only using this little."

Of course, this is not Li Su's real plan, it is just a part of it. But only in this way can we completely instill the spirit of "Liu Bei is not afraid of consuming food" into the other party's mind and lay the foundation for the subsequent plan.

Zhao Wei was indeed shocked and had a very intuitive understanding of the expansion of the Han army.
Chapter completed!